> The DOGE site lists the office being eliminated as taking up 37,000 square feet. But the staff union says the square footage is actually 10,296. The office they were expected to move into later this year is a little over 4,000, according to the union.

If DOGE inflated the square footage or the potential savings, that wouldn’t be the first error on its ledger. The New York Times found that what had been the site’s largest line item for savings — an $8 billion contract for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement — was actually just $8 million. DOGE claims to have saved the government $55 …

> “So in that sense there won’t be any ‘efficiency’ savings,” Galbraith added, acknowledging that Musk’s push to cut spending overseas could see modest returns.

And as for any savings DOGE does create, Trump would need to use them to make good on the tax breaks he campaigned on—not a rebate, Frankel said.

He wanted to remind Americans eager for “DOGE dividends” about “the tax cuts they’ve already promised, which are big in size and more than $5,000 a person, but they’re not gonna be able to deliver those either.”